Mr Lovering, a mechanical engineer who has been engineering radio operated cars for 40 years, said: “We were one and half mph off the record but we had to delay, we had the car ready, we had to delay it.

“I think that might have been what threw us off today.

“We think the cars have 10mph in the tank and we will try again.”

The remote-controlled car enthusiast and founder of ROSSA (Radio Operated Scale Speed Association) explained the new Guinness World Record can only be officially set if the car passes laser traps measuring the speed accurately.